Quotes About Drive

To be a success you need to have persistence of drive, persistence of vision, and persistence of action. You will be doing yourself a disservice by not staying resilient.

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success." -Anna Pavlova

Failure to follow desire, to do what you want to do most, paves the way to mediocrity.

The important concept here is, get started. Light a fire under yourself.

Humans given no incentive to do more . . . generally will not.

Well, there's two kinds of peeing...There's regular peeing, because you have to pee. And then there's auxiliary competitive peeing. For acquiring empire. I'm all about the real estate.

But haven't all ambitious people something of the monstrous about them? You, sir, for instance, if you will forgive me, are a little bit monstrous.

If you want it bad enough, you'll pass.

Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation and the Danes understood that. Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.

I don't want to be good; and I don't want to be bad: I just don't want to be bothered about either good or bad: I want to be an active verb.

L'humanité sera condamnée le jour où les humains n'auront plus envie de se surpasser. Aussi, vous tous qui m'écoutez, posez-vous cette question : « Mais au fait, qu'est-ce qui me donne envie de me lever le matin pour entreprendre des choses ? Qu'est-ce qui me donne envie de faire des efforts ? Qu'est-ce qui me pousse à agir ? »

I wanted reality to drive out the clichés.

All human activity is prompted by desire.

Imagination is the goad that forces human beings into restless exertion after their primary needs have been satisfied.

Bookmakers tread on each other's toes, on mine, on anybody's, or stand flat-footed scowling at scraps of paper clutched like passports to El Dorado.

Often a spirit seizes him … and it throws him into convulsions… . I begged Your disciples to drive it out, but they couldn't. Luke 9:39–40

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting 'Heaven' it was truly guerrilla film-making.

I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'

Character drives the story, and the story drives the book. I don't think about where the action should go, or how much there should be, until it's required by the characters. When I find myself adding conflict just because I'm afraid that the reader might get bored, I know I've taken a wrong turn somewhere.

When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.

Yes, I do come with certain reservations, and I'm not OK with certain things, but rather than focusing on what I don't want to do, I focus on what I do want to do, and I bring that energy, and that happens.

If you're not that big pay-per-view star, shut up and fight.

I don't shy away from competition.